Do I want to be feared or loved? That's a good question. I want both. I want people to be afraid of how much they love me.

My parents had a certain resolve to them that I don’t see as so prevalent today. Through good times and bad, they were committed to one another. Their relationship wasn’t something to be constantly examined or picked apart.

Goalies almost never get credit for winning a game, but they always get blamed for losing a game.

Do I need to be liked? Absolutely not. I like to be liked. I enjoy being liked. I have to be liked. But it's not like a compulsive need to be liked. Like my need to be praised.

I am always the type of person who is waiting for the other shoe to drop and for it to peter out and end. And if it does that's fine.

I've thought a lot about success, because it's very strange to me that I've been successful.

There's very little you could do to prepare to be a correspondent on The Daily Show, because it's not being a journalist, it's not being an actor. It involves elements of both of those things, but they're not required necessarily as job experience. It's helpful if you know how to improvise, but again, not a requirement.